Create Safe Spaces & Apply Trauma Informed Approaches to Any Population
Receive lifetime access to pre-recorded lessons filled with trauma-informed best practices that can help with your personal growth and professional development as a yoga teacher and community member.
The Fall 2025 Hybrid Cohort consists of Modules 1-5 online and self-paced + Modules 6-12 in-person on November 8 & 9, 2025 in Reno Nevada.
Full Course (Modules 1-12) Available February 2026 - Enroll Today and Get Started
Why Trauma-Informed Yoga Matters
Traditional yoga alone doesn’t always address the needs of those who have experienced trauma. This training bridges that gap.
Through evidence-based methods, mindful movement, and compassionate teaching, you’ll gain the tools to create safe, empowering spaces for every student. Whether you’re teaching in a studio, working with vulnerable communities, or on your own path of healing, these practices will expand your capacity to support others.
This is a blended training: you’ll complete flexible, self-paced video modules and then join in-person sessions to put your learning into practice.
Through a trauma-informed approach, a yoga and mindfulness practice will allow the student to tailor the movements and guidance to their needs allowing them to focus on themselves and gain greater insights into how to manage and regulate their emotions and embrace what is possible. For some, it may be the ability to slow down, for others it may be the ability to speed up, and everything in between.
By becoming a trauma-informed instructor, you are able to remove your ego from expectations of your offering as you devote yourself to providing what is needed and available to your students. You understand that the language you use during your guidance is crucial to empowering your students and you utilize a strong understand of how trauma forms, how it is released, and how it shows up in others as a foundation to your approach.
Why Choose Our Trauma-Informed Yoga Training?
Trauma-informed yoga isn’t just about poses — it’s about creating safety, choice, and empowerment for every student. Our training gives you both the knowledge and practice to do just that.
Learn Evidence-Based Practices
Learn trauma-informed methods backed by science through mindful movement.
Create Inclusive,
Safe Spaces
Create trauma-sensitive yoga environments that are welcoming and accessible to all.
Gain Skills
and Certifications
Earn 20 CEUs from Yoga Alliance and certifications from Nevada state boards.
Give the Gift of Empowerment
Help students feel safe and empowered by using invitational, choice-based language.
Free the Body
from Trauma
Use practices to foster confidence, reduce helplessness, and support recovery.
Regulate the
Nervous System
Teach students to navigate and regulate their nervous system safely and confidently.
Certification requires the completion of both the online learning and in-person immersive components, along with homework assignments.
Nichole Schembre
Founder, YACEP, E-RYT200, RYT500
You don’t know what you don’t know. My goal is to share with you what I have studied, observed, implemented, and collected data on in regards to trauma-informed yoga teachings since 2019.
Understanding teaching considerations in a classroom of trauma survivors is only a piece of the pie. We must gain and establish empathy with the community and individuals that we are serving. It is crucial that we show up to our students with empathy, patience, persistence, and consistency.
That means, gaining an understanding of the types of trauma that exist in society and how it affects the brain and body. Trauma looks differently on everyone. There is no one size fits all. The same goes for treatment. What works on one person may not work on another. What affects one person may not affect another, even if they were in the same room at the same time when an event occurred.
We must take a look at society as whole and dive into the tough conversation on oppression and privilege. This may mean taking a look at your own.
Rachel Solomon
RYT500, TCTSY Facilitator
I am a TCTSY (Trauma Center, Trauma Sensitive Yoga) facilitator, WAE (Warriors at Ease) Level 1 instructor, and 500 hour registered yoga teacher through yoga alliance. I have been teaching yoga since 2018, and trauma-informed yoga since 2019. I have taught at homeless shelters, group homes, behavioral health hospitals, gyms, and yoga studios around the Reno-Sparks area. It is through these experiences that I have been able to learn and grow as an instructor, as I have found that the best teachers are my students.
I believe that a regular yoga practice can help to keep your mind and body healthy, happy, and able to contribute to society in a positive manner. Today, my days are centered around my daily yoga practice, a routine I plan to keep for as long as I am able. When not teaching yoga, I enjoy mixing “yoga appropriate” soundtracks to accompany me during my practice, sewing my own clothing, spending time with my family and friends, and catching rainbows.
This training is designed to help you keep your ‘ego at the door’ when showing up for trauma-survivors and those currently experiencing trauma. My guarantee to you is that you will leave this training with an entirely new approach to how you teach a yoga class, how you speak to others, and how you care for yourself. This will be achieved through group conversations, interactions, vulnerability, and mindfulness practices.
I can’t wait to meet you all.
Founder & YACEP, Nichole Schembre
Course Overview
Currently, this is a Hybrid course and is accessible to those enrolled in the Hybrid cohort taking place in Reno at The Yoga Center on Saturday November 8 and Sunday November 9.
For the hybrid cohort, Modules 1-5 will be available on Teachable for self-paced access while Modules 6-13 will be led in-person with Nichole Schembre.
The full length training will be available on Teachable by February 25, 2026. Please join our mailing list to stay updated on full access availability.
Learning trauma-informed practices in your own safe space creates the ideal environment for both personal growth and professional development.
"Thank you for all the care, kindness, love, and openness that you infused so naturally.
Thank you for sharing your gifts with the world! You are an inspiration!"
- Minette
"This is more information that I can share with my students. I believe these
methods will not only make me a better yoga instructor, it is going to help me be a kinder, more gentle, human.
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- Tracy Byers
“It's taught me to think about how I teach to people and how I might improve, not just for people who are actively dealing with trauma, but everyone else, too.”
- Melanie M
